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Started by BACTRIANUMIS, February 17, 2017, 03:55:08 PM

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BACTRIANUMIS

Dear Colleagues, please, kindly assist with identification of this coin. Many thanks in advance!

THCoins

#1
Interesting find ! On your top picture there is no doubt with a legend of "Fi al-balad / al Kurraman".
I have a lot more trouble making sense of the legend on the botom picture. With the "lah" near the top i thought at first that it might be the name of one of the caliphs. But that does not seem to fit. The bottom line i read as "Kaamkar" or "Kaamkan" which also does not ring a bell.
I do not know of a similar type cataloged anywhere. The style looks post-Qarlughid to me.

edit: spelling error corrected

BACTRIANUMIS

Dear THCoins, thanks for your comment! I just found a coin with very similar obverse design and style on ZENO in Great Mongols' chapter:
http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=46516
But I would agree with you that style of this piece is rather post-Qarlughid

BACTRIANUMIS


THCoins

#4
Great !
Agree on the similarity of the bottom word. So not "Kaamkar", but گناہ گار "gunahgar" , sinner/criminal. That was a word i did not have in my vocabulary yet, though i remember reading about similar phrasings on Mongol coinage.
Then the part  at the top must be "Har keh nastanad" هر که نستاند "whoever does not accept".
And the whole text: هرکه نستاند گناه گار شد "Whoever does not accept becomes a sinner"

Edit: Nice coin on Zeno with same theme https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=263772
        And the full dinar in the BM.

edit: corrected old spelling errors after type with similar text being discussed on Zeno